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Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important figure in the Art Deco movement and the transition from the Beaux-Arts style to modern sculpture.
Boasting over two thousand plaster casts and as many bronze statues, Antoine Bourdelle's sculpture collection kept at the museum of the same name also includes 13 marble sculptures and several in clay, stoneware and wood.
Antoine Bourdelle was a French sculptor whose works—exhibiting exaggerated, rippling surfaces mingled with the flat, decorative simplifications of Archaic Greek and Romanesque art—introduced a new vigour and strength into the sculpture of the early 20th century.
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Émile-Antoine Bordelles, dit Antoine Bourdelle, est un sculpteur français, né le 30 octobre 1861 à Montauban et mort le 1 er octobre 1929 [2] au Vésinet.
Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important figure in the Art Deco movement and the transition from the Beaux-Arts style to modern sculpture.
Antoine Bourdelle was a French sculptor known for his use of quivering Romanesque forms in his depictions of mythological figures. One of his best known works Hercules the Archer (1909), was a commissioned sculpture for the financier Gabriel Thomas.
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Emile-Antoine Bourdelle was born in Montauban on 30 October 1861. He was the only son of Emilie Reille, the daughter of a weaver, and Antoine Bourdelle, a carpenter and cabinet maker who sculpted the furniture he designed.
